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Endangered Languages: Language Loss and Community Response »

Authors: Lenore A. Grenoble (Editor), Lindsay J. Whaley
ISBN-13: 9780521591027, ISBN-10: 0521591023
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss.

	Preface
	List of abbreviations and symbols
Pt. I	General issues	1
1	Western language ideologies and small-language prospects	3
2	Toward a typology of language endangerment	22
Pt. II	Language-community responses	55
3	Technical, emotional, and ideological issues in reversing language shift: examples from Southeast Alaska	57
4	Mayan efforts toward language preservation	99
5	A chronology of Mohawk language instruction at Kahnawa:ke	117
6	Language endangerment in South America: a programmatic approach	124
Pt. III	What is lost: language diversity	161
7	The significance of diversity in language endangerment and preservation	163
8	On endangered languages and the importance of linguistic diversity	192
9	Living words and cartoon translations: Longhouse "texts" and the limitations of English	217
10	Documenting rhetorical, aesthetic, and expressive loss in language shift	234
Pt. IV	Mechanisms of language loss	259
11	Impact of language variation and accommodation theory on language maintenance: an analysis of Shaba Swahili	261
12	A way to dusty death: the Matrix Language turnover hypothesis	289
13	Copper Island Aleut: a case of language "resurrection"	317
	Appendix	328
	References	329
	Index of languages	348
	Index of names	352
	General index	356